Books
Books aimed at women on pitching tents, cooking on campfires, dressing for hikes, and surviving in the wild were published in the United States, as more and more women went out into the woods.
Art
LOS ANGELES — Visitors to Scorched Earth, Mark Bradford’s exhibition at the Hammer Museum, are greeted in the lobby by a map that shows the US population infected with AIDS by state.
Comics
I know it's not good to romanticize the whole "sad tortured artist" thing …
Opinion
This week, the death of the US dance critic, Black Lives Matter at the Venice Biennale, James Baldwin's FBI file, "Happy Birthday"'s copyright shenanigans, and more.
Opinion
China weakened its currency, the renminbi, several days in a row this week, raising fears that the country’s massive economy may be in deep trouble.
Art
Nighttime darkness compresses space and alters colors, making ordinary places both more terrifying and more freeing, changing the social dynamic of those who walk in them.
Poetry
I first began reading the works of Bernadette Mayer in 1975 or 1976, contemporaneous with their publications. While I didn’t realize it at the time, Mayer wroten them in her late 20s and early 30s, quite close to my own age.
Art
There’s a bit of curatorial sleight-of-hand in I Dropped the Lemon Tart, the summer show at Lisa Cooley on the Lower East Side. The title refers to a real-life mishap in a restaurant kitchen where imminent culinary fiasco turned into a triumph of pluck and invention.
Art
CLINTON, NJ — To the Best of My Recollection is a rich, nasty and spirited show of works on paper by four Brooklyn-based artists in one of the most idyllic spots in western New Jersey.
Art
One block of New York City's Soho has had numerous identities over the past four centuries.
News
This week in art news: the FBI revealed that the suspects in the Isabella Stewart Gardner heist are dead, the Knoedler Gallery settled three of the 10 lawsuits stemming from its forgery fiasco, and Patti Smith's 2010 memoir Just Kids will become a television series.
Art
The exhibit aims to give local and global context for Young Lords’s activism while situating the social conflicts they addressed in ongoing struggles.